Author's notes: TWENTY SEVEN REVIEWS FOR FIVE CHAPTERS! MWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ME HAPPY!
The Desert Island Game
By Nyassa Kaiba
Chapter 5Kim and Shego woke just as the sun was setting and the cool of the night was moving in. "Oh crap, how long did we sleep?" Kim asked, grabbing her stick and dressing as fast as she could.
"A while." Shego replied with a shrug. "There really isn't much to do around here besides survive, don't worry about it."
"I guess you're right."
"Kim, not a word to your friend about this place. This is our spot, just ours." Shego said as she dressed in her now worn out uniform.
Kim nodded. "If he asks though, we just went swimming."
Shego chuckled. "Naturally. And then I had to change your bandages."
"And I just got so sleepy that I had to lie down. So you stood guard."
"And look where the time went." Shego grinned at the excuse.
They padded back to the beach when Ron came running. "KP! You're not going to believe who showed up!" He pointed to the lagoon where a boat had been neatly parked. Kim came walking over…
To find Junior and Senior sitting by the fire. "What the hell are you two doing here?"
"We saw the wreckage and came to investigate." Senior replied. "That, and the smoke from your fire can be seen a mile away."
"We thought you might want to get off this island." Junior piped up. "Normally father and I stay away from here, they say its cursed."
"Cursed is right. There's a monster that lives in the center of the island." Shego shuddered. "It draws power from mutants and makes a monster out of their darkest thoughts."
"Which makes you quite vulnerable to it." Senior finished, logically. "Shall we investigate this monster?"
"Uh, Senior, KP's the strongest of us, and she's injured." Ron pointed out.
"What happened?" Senior asked as Kim came around the fire for him to see.
"I got in a fight with Shego and broke my leg." Kim replied. "I couldn't do ANYTHING and that monster almost killed us!"
"I'm a blackbelt, and junior is no slouch when it comes to combat either. Let us help you." Senior said as he stood. "And then we'll get you back to our Island and see what we can do about your leg. Since I know you wouldn't want to be left out."
"Who would keep Ron out of trouble?" Kim asked.
"I'm not THAT helpless!" Ron protested.
"Ron, you fight Draken to a draw, and he's the weakest villain I've EVER seen." Kim pointed out. "I'm sorry, but you aren't going to fight Anubis without me."
"Anubis?" Senior asked.
"That's the name the monster goes by." Kim replied. "Whether he's the actual Egyptian God of the Dead I don't know. But he's powerful enough to put Shego out of commission in less than a minute."
Senior whistled. "Shego, however, is weaker against him because of her powers. I have no mutant powers to take away." He followed them along the path that Shego cut.
Shego growled. "Don't rub it in okay? It's embarrassing enough to lose to Kim every single time. I don't need to lose to this THING too!"
Even if it was a villain, Kim was heartened to see another soul. "My mom is going to have to look at this break." She sighed. "She'll insist on it."
"I can't let her on the island Kim. We have a doctor there, but the fewer non-villains who know where we are the better. I'm sorry." Senior replied.
Kim sighed, dejected. "Great, so when do I get to go home?"
"We'll have your… ah… kimmunicator fixed. Then you can call your support staff and arrange a meeting place for somebody to pick you up. But I'm not letting the worldjustice know where we are." Senior said as they came to the hole in the rose barrier. "This is the place?"
"Yeah." Shego growled, cracking her knuckles in preparation for a fight.
"Yes, I see the signs of a battle here. A recent one, how long ago?"
"Yesterday afternoon." Ron answered. "Do you think Anubis left?"
"It's a distinct possibility." Senior peered at the ground for tracks. "Here's his tracks going back into the area behind the hedge. Why didn't he come back?"
"Should we go in father?" Junior asked worriedly.
"We'll have to if we want to get his attention. If this Anubis thinks like a jackal, as his name suggests, then the area behind this barrier is his territory. Once he knows we're there he'll come running."
"He could also be lying in wait for us." Pointed out Kim.
"Then hopefully he won't take us by surprise." Senior said resignedly. "But that's also a distinct possibility. Junior, I want you to take five steps through the barrier and count thirty seconds. If he doesn't come out by then we'll assume that he's not waiting for us."
Junior gulped and tiptoed through the hole that Shego had burned earlier. Senior looked at his watch, whispering the seconds under his breath. Shego coolly filed her nails, waiting. Where she had gotten the nail file Kim had no idea. "You aren't making sarcastic comments about Senior the way you do Draken." It was a question.
"Unlike Draken I have respect for Senior. He's considered a master tactitian among villains. There are three villains that others turn to for advice in their fields. Senior for tactics, Monkey Fist for mythology, magick and folklore, and DNAmy for the sciences. Other villains don't like to turn to Draken, even if he's more skilled than Amy is, because he gloats too much, he's too arrogant." Shego explained. "We're more of a community than Heroes are in some ways, because we trust each other a LOT. So if one of us has trouble with something, the others aren't afraid to help him or her."
"Time, it's safe. Come on everyone." Senior led the others through the barrier.
No sooner had the last of them gone through than Anubis darted in, blocking the way. "Patience is a virtue human."
Senior turned, growling at him. "Hindsight only is twenty twenty Anubis, NOW Junior!" Senior cried.
Junior pressed a button on a remote and a HUGE tree branch fell on Anubis, pinning his lower body.
Anubis tapped his fingers on the ground. "I'm an immortal human, this won't hold me for long." He growled, planting his hands firmly on the ground and arching his back. The tree branch slid off of him like water off a duck's back. He shapeshifted into wolf form, in all its terrible glory.
Kim growled, stepping forward. Senior barred her progress with his cane. "You have to be willing to trust us. There's a radio in the boat, if anything happens, call back to the island and ask for Missy. She'll come as fast as she can to help us."
Kim nodded, stepping back. "If you say so. Oh I HATE being left out!" She groaned.
"We'll get him, relax." Was Junior's advice.
Senior and Anubis' gazes connected for the barest second. Then the two of them charged! Ron, Shego and Junior were right behind him.
Anubis blocked a punch from Junior and swiped at Ron. Ron ducked and Shego sent a plasma burst through where he had been seconds before. Anubis blocked the burst and began to chant. Shego began to glow. She shrieked in rage as she was lifted off the ground. "NO! NOT A-…" The manae appeared and Shego collapsed.
"Get her out of here!" Senior growled to Junior as they grappled. "KIM! RON! Get to the boat! I'll follow. I have a few more tricks up my sleeve!" He tossed a small set of what appeared to be marbles. The small spheres exploded, revealing choking smoke. Then he ran back through the barrier and pressed another detonator. Two trees fell across the way they'd come, sealing up the hole long enough for the others to get out.
Kim, Ron and Junior weretrying to reviveShego, who was looking even paler than usual. "FATHER! YOU ARE ALRIGHT!" Junior cried.
"I am." He climbed up into the cockpit faster than Kim would have thought he would for a man his age. "I've placed a sensor net around the door. Once I have the computers at the control room at home rigged I'll set an alarm telling us if he ever escapes. Now lets get out of here."
Kim holeheartedly agreed.
